Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site .
2 More familiar than detailed critical self-reflection on the level of individual courses are the corporate processes of decision making at the institutional level .
3 Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class .
4 In June he dismissed a letter from President Havel of Czechoslovakia protesting at the human rights situation in Cuba as " ignorant of our country 's problems " .
5 This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
6 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
7 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
8 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
9 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
10 The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on .
11 Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ?
12 The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) .
13 In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore .
14 The purpose of the research project is to examine the effects of profit sharing at the microeconomic level .
15 This is particularly the case for a Conservative government aiming at privatisation and the reduction in controls , an ample supply of land for private development , and the retention of land-use planning at the local level .
16 Family Membership ( £10.50 ) covers two adults and any number of children living at the same address this new category needs to be publicised .
17 The block of paranoia sitting at the other end of the table minutely shifted shape .
18 Designing , implementing and understanding a brand new architecture , such as the blackboard system , is complicated enough without trying to solve the problems of speech processing at the same time .
19 Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux .
20 On June 6 the University of Zimbabwe authorities took action against students protesting at the high level of fees and demanding higher grants .
21 An investigation into drug dealing at the illegal hippy festival held last bank holiday weekend has revealed that dangerous drugs were openly on sale .
22 It remained floating for some minutes , with lights burning at the upper windows and people shouting for help , and then finally sank .
23 So she knew that before being coaxed into motor racing at the belated age of thirty Vitor had qualified as an architect and gained a Harvard business degree .
24 The creation of needs depends on multi-layered structures and dynamics connecting individual characteristics of the consumer with processes operating at the societal level .
25 M=&12345678 The string indirection operator ( $ ) writes a string followed by a carriage-return ( & od ) into memory starting at the specified address .
26 With wickets falling at the other end Williamson ( 86 not out ) helped Boldon recover from 41–4 to a more respectable 158 .
27 The report will be used as the basis for policy making at the second World Climate Conference in Geneva in November .
28 This is a gutsy South African first novel , a romantic adventure , with the next one in hardback coming at the same time , and she will be in the UK promoting .
29 Decentralisation refers to three main features of central-local government relationships : the range of services for which local government authorities are responsible ; the degree of discretion that local government authorities have in providing these services and the degree to which local politicians and officials can make their voices heard in policy making at the national level .
30 She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead .
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